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David Flood
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FromDavid Flood
Date2002-04-21 22:47 (2002-04-21 21:47)
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"paulh" <paulh@fahncahn.com>wrote in message news:5n26cu0daqthjdo92q31et37f2nq450brm@4ax.com...

paulh
On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 13:33:33 +0100, "David Flood" <NOSPAMmaoltuile@utvinternet.ie>wrote:

David Flood
the PSNI (the new squeaky-clean RUC, mar dhe?) has yet to issue so

much

as a

mugshot to the public, preferring instead to have the usual 'anonymous sources' mutter dark rumours about an imaginary crack Provo gang.

Instead, it appears to have seized the excuse to turn Nationalist

parts

of

Northern Ireland upside down, perhaps in a nostalgic mood for the good

ol'

days...

Russ
Can you imagine if the IRA were actually *that* good?

There would have been a united Ireland 20 years ago.

David Flood
This tale of "the IRA did it" requires such a massive suspension of disbelief that I'd be surprised if any person with a modicum of

intelligence

and an open mind (obviously, Davy Trimble excludes himself on at least

one

count) could take it seriously.

paulh
Ya know...when I heard about I just accepted it was who they said it was

(the

IRA). But it did strike me as curious.. it was too ..I dunno.. esoteric,

too

easy, too wild and crazy...its not like I'd ever head of them doing this

before,

and the timing seemed wrong too. 10 years ago mebbe, now.. no, kinda

pointless.

So I was inteested to hear this alternative view, one I had never

considered,

cos it sounds more right.. not that I can really statewhy..

It was simply too slick, brazen and well-informed to be a gang of Provos - on the other hand, it sounds quite like the modus operandi of a team of 'professionals', right down to their checking the pulse of the tied-up officer (before they left) to make sure he was all right!

D.